“Then you must resign?”
“Not if every man in my county demanded it.”
“Are you the only wise man in the county?”
The voice trembled. Feeling was rising.
The Doctor was looking his questioner full in the eyes.
“If they signed such a paper, I should think so.” And there were cheers from his side, and the vote was stayed for that day at least. Dr. Cary made an appeal for the Union that men remembered all their lives. However they disagreed with him, they were moved by him. But the magazine was being stored fuller every moment.
Then the spark fell and the explosion came.
A week after this the call for troops by the President to put down Rebellion appeared in an extra in the city where the Convention sat.
Invasion!